Inclusive Finance: How Fintech and Innovation Can Transform Financial Inclusion

Alessandro Hatami,Meaghan Johnson

ISBN 10: 1398610437 / ISBN 13: 9781398610439

Published by Kogan Page April 2025, 2025

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used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inclusive Finance: How Fintech and Innovation Can Transform Financial Inclusion
• Publisher: Kogan Page April 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398610437
• ISBN 13: 9781398610439
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: VG-
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Synopsis

How can finance professionals close the financial inclusion gap through innovation?

Inclusive Finance by Alessandro Hatami and Meaghan Johnson is a practical guide for professionals in banking, fintech, investment and regulation who want to reduce exclusion, meet compliance goals and expand access to underserved markets.

Written by leading voices in financial innovation, this book explores how digital tools, emerging technologies and strategic models can transform financial systems to become more equitable, without sacrificing profitability.

You'll learn how to:

- Address systemic exclusion and reach underbanked populations
- Use blockchain, AI, DeFi and stablecoins to improve access
- Balance innovation, social impact and regulatory compliance
- Unlock new revenue by designing inclusive financial products
- Align your institution with global ESG and SDG targets

Whether you're modernizing existing systems or building a fintech startup, Inclusive Finance helps you reimagine financial services for broader social impact and long-term market growth.

Themes include: financial inclusion, fintech innovation, blockchain, DeFi, ESG, responsible finance

About the Authors

Alessandro Hatami is the founder and managing partner of advisory firm Pacemakers.io, specialising in driving digital transformation in payments, financial services and banking organisations. He has been driving digital innovation for over 15 years at firms such as the Lloyds Banking Group, PayPal UK, PayPoint.net and GE Capital. He is a non-exec director of Cashplus Bank, mentor to several fintech start-ups and an investor in a number of early-stage tech companies. He is a well-known figure in European fintech and is a frequent speaker at events across the globe. His book Reinventing Banking and Finance (2021), also published by Kogan Page, was rated Best Overall Book on Banking of 2021 by Investopedia.com in the US. He is based in London, the UK.

Meaghan Johnson is a fintech researcher and consultant with an interest in using emerging technologies and business models to increase financial inclusion. She is the co-founder of 11:FS and Digital Mags and the Chief Strategy Officer at Bazara Tech. She is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Aveiro.